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FEAST

This is the released version of FEAST; for the devel version, see FEAST.

FEAture SelcTion (FEAST) for Single-cell clustering


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

Cell clustering is one of the most important and commonly performed tasks in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data analysis. An important step in cell clustering is to select a subset of genes (referred to as “features”), whose expression patterns will then be used for downstream clustering. A good set of features should include the ones that distinguish different cell types, and the quality of such set could have significant impact on the clustering accuracy. FEAST is an R library for selecting most representative features before performing the core of scRNA-seq clustering. It can be used as a plug-in for the etablished clustering algorithms such as SC3, TSCAN, SHARP, SIMLR, and Seurat. The core of FEAST algorithm includes three steps: 1. consensus clustering; 2. gene-level significance inference; 3. validation of an optimized feature set.

Author: Kenong Su [aut, cre], Hao Wu [aut]

Maintainer: Kenong Su <kenong.su at emory.edu>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("FEAST")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("FEAST")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("FEAST")
The FEAST User's Guide HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text

Details

biocViews Clustering, FeatureExtraction, Sequencing, SingleCell, Software
Version 1.20.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.13 (R-4.1) (5 years)
License GPL-2
Depends R (>= 4.1), mclust, BiocParallel, SummarizedExperiment
Imports SingleCellExperiment, methods, stats, utils, irlba, TSCAN, SC3, matrixStats
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Bug Reports https://github.com/suke18/FEAST/issues
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Suggests rmarkdown, Seurat, ggpubr, knitr, testthat (>= 3.0.0), BiocStyle
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package FEAST_1.20.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) FEAST_1.20.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) FEAST_1.20.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) FEAST_1.20.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/FEAST
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/FEAST
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/FEAST/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/FEAST/
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